First-look trailer for Steps musical Here & Now – UK & Ireland Tour

Check out the latest photos & videos of Here & Now – The Steps Musical for its UK & Ireland tour.

Here & Now is the official new musical featuring all of the hit songs from pop phenomenon Steps.

New in is a brand new official trailer for Here & Now, which is touring the UK and Ireland from August 2025.

Video: Here & Now – new trailer

The new show is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (Clueless The New Musical, A Knight’s Tale The Musical, The Great British Bake Off Musical), with choreography by Olivier Award winner Matt Cole (Disney’s Newsies), and an original book by Shaun Kitchener (Hollyoaks).

Here & Now – The Steps Musical features all of Steps’ hit songs, including Tragedy/Heartbeat, Stomp, One For Sorrow, Better Best Forgotten, 5,6,7,8, Last Thing On My Mind, Love’s Got A Hold Of My Heart, Chain Reaction, and many more.

The tour kicks off at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre on 29 August 2025, and then visits Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Southend, Woking, Aberdeen, Newcastle, London, Nottingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Brighton, Stockton, Southampton, Belfast, Cardiff, York, Oxford, Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Plymouth, Milton Keynes, Blackpool, Norwich, Hull, Leicester, and Leeds.

Photos: Here & Now

Also check out first-look production photos from the show, which premiered at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham in November 2024.

This joyous new musical featured a stellar cast for its Birmingham run, including Rebecca Lock (Elf The Musical, School of Rock) as Caz McGovern, Hiba Elchikhe (The Time Traveller’s Wife, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) as Neeta Thakkar, Sharlene Hector (Standing At The Sky’s Edge, A Strange Loop) as Vel King, and Blake Patrick Anderson (Emojiland, Rent) as Robbie Davies.

The cast also included River Medway (RuPaul’s Drag Race) as Jem, Finty Williams (The Baker’s Wife, The Ocean at the End of the Lane) as Patricia, Dan Partridge (Grease, Kinky Boots) as Ben, Helen Colby (Sinatra The Musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Tracey, Gary Milner (Kiss Me Kate, Evita) as Gareth, Edward Baker Duly (The King and I, The Third Man) as Max, and John Stacey (Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady) as Lesley; and also Olivia Bella, Jabari Braham, Michael Carolan, Alex Christian, Kade Ferraiolo, Jemma Geanaus, Charlie-Jay Johnson, Serina Mathew, Jago Mottart, Markus Sodergren and Genevieve Taylor.

Casting for the 2025/2026 tour is to be announced

Video: Here & Now – First-look and audience reactions

Also see a First-look video of the show, including reactions from the audience.

Video: Rebecca Lock sings ‘One for Sorrow’ from Here & Now

The creative team also includes musical supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Matt Spencer-Smith, set design by Tom Rogers, costume design by Gabriella Slade, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Adam Fisher, wigs, hair and makeup design by Sam Cox, casting by Will Burton for Grindrod Burton Casting, associate direction by Matt Hassall, associate choreography by Jane McMurtrie with associate sound design by Ollie Durrant.

Photos: Here & Now – Rehearsal photos

Also check out rehearsal photos for the show

The show is produced by music industry svengali Pete Waterman (I Should Be So Lucky The Musical) of Stock, Aitken and Waterman fame, and ROYO (Now That’s What I Call A Musical, 13 Going on 30 The Musical, The Cher Show).

The story of Here & Now centres on seaside superstore Better Best Bargains, where it’s Friday night, the vibe is right, and everyone’s dancing in the aisles. But when Caz discovers the shelves are stocked with lies and betrayal, the summer of love she and her friends dreamed of suddenly feels like a tragedy. Have they all lost their chance of a ‘happy ever after’? Or does love have other plans in store…

Steps, comprising of Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Lee Latchford-Evans and Lisa Scott-Lee, are the UK’s most successful mixed sex pop group of all time, with 14 top five singles, 4 number one albums, 22 million record sales, 500 million streams & 11 sold-out national arena tours under their belts. Their 2017 comeback tour sold out all 300,000 tickets, making it one of the biggest pop tours of the year.

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Main photo: Here and Now - The Steps Musical. Photo by Pamela Raith